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From Data Swamps to Reliable Data Systems: How Iceberg Brought 40 Years of Database Wisdom to Data Lakes

From Data Swamps to Reliable Data Systems: How Iceberg Brought 40 Years of Database Wisdom to Data Lakes

The data lake was once heralded as the future, an infinitely scalable reservoir for all our raw data, promising to transform it into actionable insights. This was a logical progression from databases and data warehouses, each step driven by the increasing demand for scalability. Yet, in embracing the data lake's scale and flexibility, we overlooked a critical difference.

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Turbocharged Storage: MinIO, KIOXIA, and AMD team up to take on AI

Turbocharged Storage: MinIO, KIOXIA, and AMD team up to take on AI

MinIO, the leader in high-performance AI storage, has once again raised the bar in the AI infrastructure industry with its groundbreaking MinIO AIStor platform. Leveraging next-generation AMD hardware, KIOXIA NVMe™ SSDs, and cutting-edge software optimizations, MinIO AIStor delivers unmatched performance, scalability, and efficiency for AI-driven and other data intensive workloads. Today, we are excited to share benchmark results that demonstrate

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Mitigating Ransomware Attacks with Object Storage

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks with Object Storage

Ransomware attacks are nothing new. The first ransomware attack occurred 36 years ago in 1989, and it is known as the AIDS Trojan PC Cyborg Virus. Floppy disks infected with a Trojan virus were mailed to attendees of the World Health Organization’s AIDS conference and other individuals. The virus waited until the computer had been booted 90 times. Then

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The Case for Native Iceberg Catalog APIs and Unified Governance in Object Storage

The Case for Native Iceberg Catalog APIs and Unified Governance in Object Storage

Apache Iceberg is significantly transforming modern data lakes. Its introduction to object storage platforms has been celebrated for delivering ACID transactions, strong schema evolution, and warehouse-like reliability to data lake architectures. The Iceberg Catalog API standard is crucial to this transformation, as it ensures that various tools can consistently discover tables and execute atomic transactions once a compliant catalog service

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How a Global Content Leader Rebuilt Their Observability Architecture for Hyperscale

How a Global Content Leader Rebuilt Their Observability Architecture for Hyperscale

This is the story of how an enterprise cloud content platform architected one of the largest and most resilient SmartStore deployments in production using MinIO AIStor and Splunk SmartStore. One of the world’s largest content platforms faced a serious scaling issue. They were ingesting multiple terabytes of observability data per day, and that footprint was growing by multiple petabytes

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AI-Powered Quality Control, Built for the Factory Floor

AI-Powered Quality Control, Built for the Factory Floor

How a global manufacturer is cutting inspection labor by 10x with anomaly detection and edge-native object storage Overview On factory floors around the world, visual inspection remains one of the most labor-intensive and error-prone steps in the manufacturing process. At one global consumer goods manufacturer, this challenge is being redefined with AI at the edge. By replacing manual spot checks

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Discover, Transact, Govern? Unpacking the Iceberg Catalog API Standard's True Scope.

Discover, Transact, Govern? Unpacking the Iceberg Catalog API Standard's True Scope.

In data engineering, open standards are foundational for building interoperable, evolvable, and non-proprietary systems. Apache Iceberg, an open table format, is a prime example. Along with compute, Iceberg brings structure and reliability to data lakes. When coupled with high-performance object storage like MinIO AIStor, Iceberg unlocks new avenues for creating next-generation, high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable architectures.  However, this powerful table

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NVIDIA GTC 2025 Wrap-up: 18 New Products to Watch

NVIDIA GTC 2025 Wrap-up: 18 New Products to Watch

This post first appeared on The New Stack on April 18th, 2025. Get a comprehensive summary of the major compute, networking, storage and partnership announcements from NVIDIA’s biggest event of the year. If you follow the tech news, you have read a lot about NVIDIA and its graphics processing units (GPUs). However, it would be incorrect to conclude that

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Iceberg's Catalog API: The Atomic Pointer Manager Behind Your Iceberg Tables

Iceberg's Catalog API: The Atomic Pointer Manager Behind Your Iceberg Tables

Apache Iceberg has significantly reshaped how organizations manage and interact with massive structured analytical datasets inside object storage. It brings database-like reliability and powerful features such as ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel. Although these features are commonly emphasized, the Iceberg Catalog API is what makes these tables accessible. The Iceberg Catalog API is a centralized interface for managing

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